I use SageTV to record my TV shows.  When I record a HDTV show to Tower, I have noticed that there are glitches in the recording every 4-5 seconds.  They are like clock work, I actually timed them with my stop watch.  These glitches in recordings only happen when recording to Tower.  If I record do a local disk on my SageTV server, there are no glitches at all.

 

Is there anything special that happens periodically like this on the UnRaid server?  It seems to regular to be anything else.  Ideas on what I can look at?

 

thanks,

 

A little more information and some simple math:

 

The file is created at a rate of 8GB/hr so that would be ~18Mb/s or ~11.25MB/glich.  What is the block size for writing to the disk?  Wondering if it is ~11MegaBytes is size.

 

Maybe I'm completely off.

 

As an aside anyone know of a program that will stream data to a file at a defined bit rate and report if the bit rate is unsustainable?

 

 

 

 

Trying to reproduce this...

I just installed  a new version of SageTV as they say they had an issue that would cause glitches ~5secs.  I'll update if this was not the cause, but it sounds like this may have been a SageTV issue after all.

 

sorry about the diversion.